[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”27849″ img_size=”800×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]There were some gruesome scenes in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that Marvel can’t go dark. Apparently, though; it was meant to go a lot darker.
Kevin Feige decided to clarify something that co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo slipped out. A scene that could have gone into the script that included a decapitated Steve Rogers!
“I think there are behind the scenes pictures of this, us having the giant omnibus of the Infinity Gauntlet comic collection and saying, we need to do justice to this,’ One of those images was Thanos sitting on a throne of skulls, ruling over everything and we wanted to get that in there. One of the ideas was, when they finish the time heist, they returned to a world [in 2023] that Thanos had already conquered, that involved all of that, the throne made of bones and skulls and had him tossing, like a bowling ball, Captain America’s severed skull head, still in the cowl, to Captain America. And it was pretty cool, but the logic to get there defeated us.”
How far did they get to this ending up on screen?
“I think it ended up in a set of pages at one point in the script. There might be a piece of concept art somewhere with it.”
Feige explained that this was to prove how seriously everyone needed to regard Thanos:
“Thanos is not just a purple guy with a big chin who sits in chairs and smirks, which is basically all he had been up until Infinity War. So much of the time we spent in a conference room in Pinewood in Atlanta that someday I want to have a plaque: ‘It was here that nine people almost lost their minds developing and writing Infinity War and Endgame.’ I would keep opening the book and saying, ‘but we need to do this. We need something like this. Thanos can do this.’ Some of that led to things you saw in Infinity War in Nowhere where he turns Drax into a pile of cubes. Or turns Nebula into that spiraling ribbon. Or has bubbles come out of Star-Lord’s gun. His casual, sadistic use of the stones was something that we kept wanting to do.”
Would you have liked to see this scene play out on the big screen?
Source: Empire[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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